Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n
October 2nd<\/sup>, 2024<\/i><\/p>\n Jack Smith\u2019s new 167-page filing against Donald Trump contains several bombshells.<\/p>\n Trump, of course, was hoping his lunatic pet fascists on the Supreme Court would give him full immunity against any actions he performed as President. But even his six corrupt right wingers knew they had to figleaf their ruling to give it a pretense of Constitutional law, and they stipulated that immunity only applied to \u201cofficial acts.\u201d Still \u201claw\u201d on the level of the Dredd Scott decision, but it was enough.<\/p>\n Very little of Trump\u2019s activities between the month or so prior to the election and January 6th<\/sup> fell under the aegis of \u2018official acts.\u2019 Even after the Supreme Court decided the United States needed a king instead of a president, most of his activities were flat-out illegal.<\/p>\n So Smith rewrote his filing to stipulate that Trump\u2019s actions did not fall under the official duties of a president. While you can argue that various presidents in American history would have been delighted to see their vice presidents lynched, it is, in fact, not an official presidential duty. The constitution is curiously mute on the issue of when it is proper for a president to have his first-in-line murdered even though at the time of the Constitution, the vice president was whoever got the second-most votes. \u201cUneasy lies the head,\u201d indeed!<\/p>\n Of course, the endless delays meant that Smith had more time to broaden his investigation and include new allegations in his superseding document. The delays were caused, not by Smith but by Trump, who hoped to delay it all past the election, where hopefully he would win or steal a second term and fire Jack Smith.<\/p>\n Smith had an allegation missing from the first filing: that Trump knew his claims he won the election but it was stolen from him were false. The new filing contains eyewitness allegations that Trump dismissed voting results as \u201cdetails\u201d that \u201cdon\u2019t matter\u201d and the strategy was simply to throw doubt over the results, justified or not. In Trump\u2019s own words, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump couldn\u2019t even be bothered with a coherent theory as to how the votes were taken from them. His claims vary wildly from filing to filing, even in appeals of the same case! His estimates amounted to \u201cwhatever sounds good,\u201d and the only thing they had in common was an utter lack of evidence to support them. That\u2019s why he lost every single voter fraud filing he made, even though a third of the judges reviewing his filings were Trump appointees. Smith includes first-hand accounts of Trump mocking allegations that voting machines \u201cchanged the votes.\u201d I wonder if Fox News will sue Trump if he is found guilty of willfully lying about that; after all, it was repeating those lies that cost Fox News three quarters of a billion dollars in a defamation suit.<\/p>\n Smith hardened the allegations that Trump planned to not only contest, but cast doubt on the election prior to the election. One Trump lawyer\u2019s quote that made it in this time: \u201cWhat Trump\u2019s going to do is just declare victory. \u2026 That doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s the winner, he\u2019s just going to say he\u2019s the winner \u2026 that\u2019s our strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump hired Giuliani because Giuliani had stated he would support Trump\u2019s lies. In Smith\u2019s words, Giuliani \u201cwas willing to falsely claim victory and spread knowingly false claims of election fraud\u201d The filing contains one tidbit that Rudy might find interesting: Trump planned to stiff him if the filing failed, and of course it was bound to.<\/p>\n On January 6th<\/sup>, Trump posted to his enraged MAGA monkeys that by failing to invalidate the electoral count, Mike Pence lacked the \u201ccourage to do what should have been done.\u201d Learning that Pence had been taken to a safe location so the monkeys wouldn\u2019t lynch him, Trump\u2019s response was \u201cso what?\u201d<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s own people knew he was a lying sack. One staffer\u2019s quote Smith saw fit to include was, \u201cIt\u2019s tough to own any of this when it\u2019s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.\u201d Some of Trump\u2019s lawyers have already been sanctioned, and even disbarred for filing his nonsense. More are sure to follow in light of these new revelations. Even the chair of the RNC was warned that Trump\u2019s motions were \u201cfucking nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n